This article presents a comprehensive approach to assessing the economic efficiency of investments in energy-saving measures specifically for public utility enterprises. This study contributes to the theoretical and practical justification for using...
Temporary container buildings are widely used because of their rapid construction, flexible deployment, and suitability for construction-site accommodation, emergency facilities, event housing, and other short-term scenarios. However, their energy-sa...
Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) façades are a promising technique for improving building energy performance. This study develops energy simulation models of different photovoltaic-integrated shading devices (PVSDs) in single-story and...
Building energy conservation has gained tremendous interest since the 1970s energy crisis. Building energy standards have been established as prescribed guidelines for energy savings in buildings worldwide, among which those from China and the United...
With the increasingly stringent regulation of ship carbon emissions by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), improving ship energy efficiency has become a key research direction in the current shipping industry. This paper proposes and evalu...
This study investigates the energy performance improvement in an aging public healthcare center in South Korea through a comprehensive “Green Remodeling” project. The building, originally constructed in 2001 before the establishment of na...
Considering the challenges of increasing global energy scarcity and intensifying environmental problems, energy conservation in end-use energy-consuming products has become critical. In this study, we focused on household refrigerators and analyzed t...
Thermal properties of the building envelope (BE) prescribed by codes and standards do not provide a consistent and comprehensive measure of its performance. Qualitative comparative analysis employed by the codes to assess energy savings is deterrent...
This study constructs a system dynamics (SD)-based energy efficiency model for retrofitting existing residential buildings by considering urban residential buildings in Liaoning Province, China. In this study, we sorted the boundaries of building ene...
The role of the transparent envelope in energy savings is crucial as it accounts for a significant proportion of the total energy loss (between 30 and 40%). This paper focuses on the identification of reasonable parameters for the transparent envelop...
Energy efficiency improvement and environmental impact reduction are emerging issues in the manufacturing industry. Aside from cutting, metal forming is also an important process in manufacturing. Metal forming is energy intensive because of the low...
This paper assesses the energy efficiency of two buildings constructed in the 1960s in Madrid. One of the buildings is refurbished including passive energy efficiency improvements, while the other remains in its original state. The area is one of a s...
In recent years, increasingly prominent energy and environmental problems have pushed for higher requirements for buildings’ energy saving. According to the conventional energy-saving design method, the cooperative operation between architects,...
Energy conservation measures can not only improve energy efficiency; it can also enhance microgrid resilience. This paper aims at investigating energy conservation in a small microgrid, using a new hospital in Riyadh city as a case study, to satisfy...
Difficulty in financing and low financing efficiency is one of the bottlenecks that restrict the high-quality development of China’s energy-saving and environmental protection industry and economy. The key to improving financing efficiency is t...
Business parks account for 30% of China’s total carbon emissions. Exploring emissions reduction approaches for business parks is crucial to achieve a net-zero emissions target, as well as for achieving a representative example for all types of...
Energy consumption in student dormitories, key living and study spaces, is a major concern for institutions and communities. This paper proposes a multi-objective optimization model to address the issue of incomplete single-dimensional analysis in ex...
This study investigates the significant energy optimization gaps in hotel retrofits in a subtropical climate, quantifying the missed energy-saving opportunities through advanced simulation techniques. Utilizing Design Builder software, the energy con...
The Gate rudder system (GRS) was recently introduced as an innovative energy-saving device (ESD) for ships, and it is the most attractive ESD currently used in the market, with double figures of fuel savings in full-scale (>10–35%) compared...
PV windows are seen as potential candidates for conventional windows. Improving the comprehensive performance of PV windows in terms of electrical, optical, and heat transfer has received increasing attention. This paper reviews the development of BI...
Improving energy efficiency indicators and reasonable use of energy resources in the context of the increasing demand for energy are sectors that must definitely be paid attention to. The fight against climate change must start in the construction se...
The fishmeal production industry is essential for providing protein for animal feed in the aquaculture sector. However, the industry faces challenges related to energy consumption and environmental sustainability. This study evaluates the energy effi...
Condenser evaporative pre-coolers provide a low cost retrofit option for existing packaged rooftop air conditioning application units. This paper aimed to provide a comprehensive study to assess energy savings and peak power reductions of condenser e...
Optimizing the operational performance of green ships can further improve the energy saving and emission reduction effect of ships, and speed optimization is one of the more widely used and effective measures. It is a new challenge for the shipping i...
Economical and efficient use of energy is promoted around the world as a model of conscious care for the environment in which we live. A mere change of habits in the use of energy can reduce its costs by 5% to 15%, and investments in energy-saving te...
This study examines energy savings and efficient use through the application of smart adaptive lighting within the framework of “smart energy”, “smart city”, and “smart village”. Adaptive street lighting systems ha...
Intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) technologies will bring significant changes to future transportation, and urban intersections will be an important scenario for the application of ICVs. There exists one significant challenge to address for the c...
The operational energy efficiency of new buildings in the EU should be at the level of ultra-low or near-zero energy buildings. It is therefore relatively difficult to achieve further energy savings. However, the pre-operational phase—raw mater...
Given the complex powertrain of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and diversified vehicle platooning synergy constraints, a control strategy that simultaneously considers inter-vehicle synergy control and energy economy is one of the key technologi...
In the global low-carbon era, building energy conservation has achieved significant success. However, especially in the culture and tourism industry, there are many brick–wood buildings that imitate ancient styles. As their appearance authentic...
Under the dual imperatives of environmental protection and sustainable socio-economic development, the high energy consumption of the manufacturing sector has become a significant barrier to its transition toward industrial ecological transformation....
China’s urban residential building stock is extensive and spans a wide range of construction periods. With the continuous enhancement of building energy efficiency standards, the chronological characteristics and variability of residential buil...
The growing focus on enhancing ship performance over the past decades has driven the invention of various energy-saving devices. Conducting performance analyses of these devices is essential to substantiate the claimed energy savings. However, this p...
Energy-efficient retrofitting of building envelopes is necessary to reduce global carbon emissions and to reach net-zero goals. Cooling energy demand-dominated countries in the GCC region require simple and effective strategies to reduce building sec...
This study presents a comprehensive assessment of energy efficiency and conservation strategies in institutional buildings, using the Riyadh Reformatory Building (RRB) in Saudi Arabia as a case study. The analysis focuses on meeting the operational a...
The global energy crisis, which began in 2021 due to the extraordinary economic recovery after the pandemic and intensified after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has changed the conditions of energy management, paying more attent...
In order to save the large amount of energy consumption associated with traditional water-bath LNG vaporizer, this paper proposes a novel design for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) vaporizer by comprehensively applying the exothermic property of hydrog...
The rising energy consumption in residential buildings within the hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) climate zone, driven by occupants’ pursuit of improved thermal comfort, necessitates effective energy conservation measures. This study establis...
In the context of China’s dual-carbon goals, energy efficiency in public buildings has become a focal point of public concern. As large-scale public transportation buildings, the indoor thermal comfort and the current state of energy consumptio...
The demand for low-carbon and energy-efficient building designs is urgent, especially considering that building energy consumption constitutes a significant part of global energy usage. Unlike small to medium-sized buildings such as residential and o...
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of energy optimization strategies for the Ferrarin and Arzergrande water pumping stations, located in the Piovese Area, close to Padua, managed by multiutility company AcegasApsAmga S.p.A. Based on studies...
With the worldwide dissemination of the “green development” concept and the advancement of China’s new rural construction, the sustainable development of rural residences has gained significant attention within the construction indu...
In the aerospace industry, many important components are made of ring forgings with characteristics of multi-variety and multi-batch. Such components have many steps and complex parameters in the thermoforming process. The process orders are dynamic...
According to the temperature regulations and high energy consumption of air conditioning (AC) system in data centers (DCs), natural cold energy becomes the focus of energy saving in data center in winter and transition season. A new type of air–water...
Rapid urbanization across the world has led to an exponential increase in demand for utilities, electricity, gas and water. The building infrastructure sector is one of the largest global consumers of electricity and thereby one of the largest emitte...
Efficient and clean treatment of wastewater and energy recovery and utilization are important links to realize low-carbon development of oilfields. Therefore, this paper innovatively proposes a multi-energy complementary co-production heating system...
A primary driving force of today’s urban environment is the development or enhancement of building stock with a focus on minimizing its environmental footprint, eliminating its dependence on fossil fuels, enforcing its energy efficiency and sel...
The decarbonisation of low- and medium-temperature industrial process heat requires the use of renewable thermal technologies capable of directly reducing dependence on fossil fuels. This study aims to comprehensively evaluate the potential of heat g...
Aging residential buildings in urban areas require effective thermal insulation to enhance energy efficiency and indoor comfort. In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), expanded polystyrene (EPS) is the most commonly used insulation material due to its affo...
A possible way to solve the problem of energy saving in construction is to introduce energy-efficient buildings at the design stage and, in particular, during retrofit. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to conduct a theoretical analysis of ther...
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